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Posted October 2, 2012 04:46 pm

Lexington woman buys stolen phone

A 19-year-old Lexington woman reported she came to Athens on Monday morning to buy a cellphone and later was unable to activate it because it had previously been reported stolen, Athens-Clarke police said.

The victim said she responded to a Craig’s List advertisement for the phone and met the seller in a bank’s parking lot on North Lumpkin Street, police said.

Prior to the sale, the woman had traded text messages with the seller, and she gave officers the thief’s phone number to assist investigators, according to police.